Erinys
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Waiting for them was Tim Reilly, the Russian-speaking head of Erinys; he shook their hands and led them into the boardroom.
From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2016
When nuclear scientists examined the Erinys table, they found that, in Reilly’s damning words, it was “heaving” with radioactive contamination.
From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2016
That morning – at 11.49 – Lugovoi called Litvinenko from Gatwick airport to confirm their meeting that afternoon at the intelligence firm Erinys in Grosvenor Street.
From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2016
John Holmes said the "substantial contamination" closed the office of his security firm Erinys for four months.
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2015
The Scholiast offers the derivation ‘μωλυειν, to make charms of no avail’; but this is exactly like Professor Blackie’s etymological discovery that Erinys is derived from ερινυειν: ‘he might as well derive critic from criticise.’
From Custom and Myth by Lang, Andrew
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